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mined or uncertain; to be in suspense; to linger; to be delayed. A noble stroke he lifted high, Which hung not, but so swift with tempest fell On the proud crest of Satan. Milton. To hang around, to loiter idly about. -- To hang back, to hesitate; to falter; to be reluctant. "If any one among you hangs back." Jowett (…

on steel by subjecting it to the action of carbon under long-continued pressure at a very high heat, and then to a violent chilling, as by a spray of cold water. This process gives an armor plate a thick surface of extreme hardness supported by material gradually decreasing in hardness to the unaltered soft steel at th…

Let there be deducted, out of our main potation, Five marks in hatchments to adorn this thigh. Beau. & Fl.

High; elevated; hence, haughty; proud. [Obs.] Shak.

High; lofty; bold. [Obs. or Archaic] To measure the most haughty mountain's height. Spenser. Equal unto this haughty enterprise. Spenser

High; -- said of the voice or flight of birds. [Obs.]

High relish or flavor; high seasoning.

Exposed to hazard; dangerous; risky. To enterprise so hazardous and high! Milton.

imal, containing the brain, or chief ganglia of the nervous system, the mouth, and in the higher animals, the chief sensory organs; poll; cephalon.

High temperature, as distinguished from low temperature, or cold; as, the heat of summer and the cold of winter; heat of the skin or body in fever, etc. Else how had the world . . . Avoided pinching cold and scorching heat! Milton.

; to raise; to hoist; -- often with up; as, the wave heaved the boat on land. One heaved ahigh, to be hurled down below. Shak.

the abode of bliss; the place or state of the blessed after death. Unto the God of love, high heaven's King. Spenser. It is a knell That summons thee to heaven or to hell. Shak. New thoughts of God, new hopes of Heaven. Keble.

subject to much traffic or travel; as, the region's most heavily traveled highways. Syn. -- heavily traveled. [WordNet 1.5]

Native barium sulphate or barite, -- so called because of its high specific gravity as compared with other non-metallic minerals.

use of the heels, as in dancing, running, and the like. [R.] I cannot sing, Nor heel the high lavolt. Shak.

The condition of being high; elevated position. Behold the height of the stars, how high they are! Job xxii. 12.

To make high; to raise higher; to elevate.

n the abstract question. Coleridge. Herd's grass (Bot.), one of several species of grass, highly esteemed for hay. See under Grass.

Combining the heroic and the ludicrous; denoting high burlesque; as, a heroicomic poem.

A member of the highest rank of nobility in Germany and Austria, corresponding to the British duke.